Together with my Adobe colleagues Diana Joseph and Frank Jennings, I am co-presenting at the Text Analytics World conference this April in San Francisco. Here is the session abstract:

While designing Web or print publications, there is a typical requirement to place stock art at regular intervals to keep up reader engagement and break the monotony of text. Selecting relevant stock images is time-consuming and often involves collaboration between multiple individuals. There are copyright considerations as well: you cannot simply select any image that you come across. The requirement to maintain attribution for the images in use poses a challenge as well.

In May 2011, I had the opportunity to deliver a session titled Localizing Images: Cultural Aspects and Visual Metaphors at the STC Technical Communication Summit in Sacramento, California. It was a great experience speaking on this topic to a predominantly American audience, since there was cultural exchange happening right from the word Go.

A variation of the session was also accepted on the program for the 2011 STC India Conference. I was looking forward to traveling to Chennai to present the session on December 3. Unfortunately, a middle ear infection played spoilsport and the doctor forbade me from flying for at least a couple of weeks. My colleague, Nandini Gupta, then graciously agreed to present the session on my behalf.

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